Using svn 1.8 in eclipse on Mac OS X

sudo -s

Create a symbolic link to your Xcode toolchain:

ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.10.xctoolchain

Download SVN 1.8 sources

cd ~/Downloads/
curl -o subversion-1.8.9.tar.gz http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.9.tar.gz
tar -xvf subversion-1.8.9.tar.gz

Compile SVN 1.8 from sources

cd ~/Downloads/subversion-1.8.9
sh get-deps.sh serf
cd serf/
./configure
make
make install

export CC=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.10.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc
cd ..
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-javahl --with-serf=/usr/local/serf

make 
sudo make install
make javahl
sudo make install-javahl

$ cd /Library/Java/Extensions
/Library/Java/Extensions $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib
/Library/Java/Extensions $ sudo ln -sf /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.jnilib
/Library/Java/Extensions $ ls -l
total 16
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    35B 29 Jun 13:59 libsvnjavahl-1.dylib@ -> /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin    36B 29 Jun 13:59 libsvnjavahl-1.jnilib@ -> /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.jnilib